Here are some reactions to President Obama's State of the Union address.
Scott Paul, Executive Director, the Alliance for American Manufacturing:
A speech alone won't change policy, but it can lay the groundwork. We look forward to working with the White House as it cracks down on China's cheating, which is stealing jobs and jeopardizing our economic future.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee:
The president just doesn’t get it. No economic plan can succeed that ignores our staggering and surging debt.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi :
President Obama offered a clear path to help small businesses succeed and hire, provide tax relief for our workers, rebuild America, and provide aid to those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own," said. "It will put Americans back to work and it will be paid for.
Mitt Romney, running scared in Florida:
“Tonight will mark another chapter in the misguided policies of the last three years— and the failed leadership of one man.”
Sen. John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts:
There was a lot of common sense and even more common ground in tonight’s address. We shouldn’t have to wait for another year or another election to act like it. Tax reform, energy security, infrastructure and jobs matter to all of us and we’re so much closer on these issues than the shrillness of our politics pretends we are.”
Rep. Paul Broun, Republican of Maryland Georgia, tweeted the President during the speech:
"Mr. President, you don't believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism."
Jared Bernstein, formerly Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden:
This wasn’t “win the future” with a long-term investment agenda. It was “build on the momentum we’ve got right now“ by creating incentives for manufacturers, skills for workers, jobs in fossil fuel extraction and clean energy innovation, all financed by a fairer tax code.
Tweet of the Day:
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2003:
Nothing better than to wake up to this.
A senior U.S. Central Command official will provide a background briefing regarding Iraq's potential use of oil as a terror weapon.
Sounds like an Onion article, doesn't it?
Reader BZ, who brought this beauty to my attention, summed it up perfectly:
What's next? Sand as WMD? [...]
Update: Upon further thought, this strategy starts making more and more sense. If Bush and Co. can pull it off, why stop with Iraq? It would provide ample justification to go after administration thorn-in-the-sides Venezuela and Iran. And at that point could we really ignore Saudi Arabia's "arsenal"?
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